Want a new idea to engage readers? Try installing an artist-in-residence, or creating a state-wide book club, or asking readers for help uncovering stories from the archives — all three ideas come from the Alabama Media Group.

You can use Twitter to keep up with the most-retweeted ideas to come out of journalism conferences. Here’s how.

Dave Winer says, “If you want to be in the news business, you also have to be in the distribution business.” And a lot more thought-provoking statements on the way journalists may be able to distribute content.

According to the 2010 Census, there are 5 million people in the United States between the ages of 85 and 94, and roughly 13 million people between the ages of 75 and 84. A 2014 Pew study shows that 37 percent of people older than 80 go online; that number jumps to 74 percent when surveying adults over 65. How do we design accessible experiences for them?

“Below are all of the publications I’ve found that use the Creative Commons license. I hope this list is helpful for smaller newsrooms and inspires some organizations to make some of their material available for other publications to reuse or extend.”

“Imagine a dashboard that measures how many local publications or stories we read on a weekly basis; or recommends local news if we’ve read too many pieces in national and international categories. Imagine a ‘streak’ where people try to read a local news story every day for a set period of time. This is how calorie counting on MyFitnessPal works; there’s no reason the functionality can’t be extended to the information we consume.”

“We really had to think hard about how to cover Trump in a way that only we could as the college paper of his alma mater. We thought: What can we do that the Times can’t? Who do we have access to that they don’t? And that was digging into his time here at Penn, his ties to it now, and this disconnect between how campus views him and how he leverages his Penn degree.”